On Saturday evening, the blade of a wind turbine off the shore of Martha’s Vineyard (of all places) has broken off and its debris has ended up in the ocean. Consequently, a number of area beaches have been closed for safety reasons. From the NY Times:

The turbines being installed at Vineyard Wind are enormous, featuring 351-foot-long blades that can reach heights taller than the Eiffel Tower.

The damaged blade appeared to experience a break approximately 65 feet from its root, Craig Gilvarg, the communications director for Vineyard Wind, said in an email. The blade was still undergoing testing at the time. The company quickly recovered three large pieces from the ocean, he added, and “nearly the entirety of the blade remains affixed to the turbine and has not fallen into the water.”

It is unclear what caused the blade to break, but green and white debris as well as sharp fiberglass shards have been washing up on shore, and the Nantucket Harbormaster announced on Tuesday that six beaches on the south side of the island would be closed to swimmers. No injuries were reported.

According to the Boston Herald, it took the Vineyard Wind project operators two whole days to notify the island’s townships that the 300+ foot blade that was undergoing testing at the time had blown itself to bits. The project managers did report that the blade was still essentially “intact,” hanging from the turbine like wet noodles, and that they had pulled up three large fiberglass pieces from the nearby ocean.

Massachusetts governor, Maura Healey, still stands by renewable edifices essentially downplaying the bad effects of the calamity (i.e. nothing to see here).

…Gov. Maura Healey on Thursday said state officials were on site with workers to clean up and remove debris, Axios Boston reported.

“We see the success of wind and wind turbines around the world that have been operating well and safely for decades,” Healey told Axios. “Obviously, something went wrong. There was a problem. We need to understand that, get to the bottom of it and make sure it’s addressed.”

“The offshore wind industry is a critical component of Massachusetts’ economy and the country’s transition to clean, affordable energy,” Healey said in a later statement to The Light. “It is essential that we gain a full understanding of what happened here and how it can be prevented in the future.”

Easy for Healey to say since Bay State taxpayers fund her utility costs. The only sector of the Bay State’s economy that benefits resulting from her Green conversion mandates are the state’s grifters and utility companies. Utility costs in Massachusetts are some of the highest in the country and residents have even been advised to dry their clothes outside as a cost saving measure.

In the meantime, Healy’s small wind farm has recently released an undetermined amount of poisons into the Atlantic. What about fish, large and small, swallowing pieces of styrofoam and fiberglass? I mean, fiberglass lasts forever, right?

A concerted effort was made to cover up the debris to begin with and, fortunately, Nantucket residents are waking up. Unfortunately, for anything to really get done, it may take some of the wind mill blade’s debris to end up on Obama’s Martha’s Vineyard estate’s beachfront or kick Biden out of the White House in order for anything to finally get done.

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